Lash cinch hook



Oct. 9, 1934. B WA T 1,976,643

LASH CINCH HOOK Filed March 28, 1934' 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Inventor /6 By I Oct. 9, 1934. c B, wATT$ 1,976,643

LASH CINCH HOOK Filed March 28, 1954 3 Sheets-Sheet 5 Inventor Patented Get. 9, 1934 UNITED :smrss mum eFFslio-li 1,976,643 'LASH omorrnooK iCharlestB. wattaiBakersficld,iCalif. Application March 28, 1934,.SeiialNo. 717,865 4 Claims. (01. 24-129) This invention has reference to a hook for use half section thereof secured to one end of the on one end of a lash cinch, and the object of the lash cinch 16 through the medium of a suitable invention includes the provision of such a hook length of leather or string 17 of suitable matethat may be readily applied. to the lash cinch rial which as clearly suggested in Figure 8 is 5 and which will serve to hold in an eflicient manthreaded through the apertures 15, and corre- 75 her the rope employed for securing the pack to sponding apertures 18 provided in said end of the animal sufficiently taut while a person is the cinch 16. After being threaded through the making the final knot for securing the free end openings and 18 the ends of the securing cord of the rope in position. 17 are knotted or otherwise secured together as Further in accordance with the present invenindicated at 19. In this connection it will be *6 tion a hook of the character above mentioned is noted that in securing the hook 10 to the cinch so provided as to permit of the same being con- 16 the face of the hook opposite to the beveled structed from a single blank of wood or other side 12 thereof is in intimate contact with the suitable material. outer or face side of the cinch 16. (See Figures 7 315 The invention together with its objects and 1, 4 and 8.)

advantages will be best understood from a study As is well known the pack 20 is secured on the of the following description taken in connection back of the animal through the medium of a with the accompanying drawings wherein: cinch rope 21 which has one end thereof secured Figure 1 is an elevational view illustrating the as at 22 to the loop 23 provided on one end of application of the hook with the pack secured in the cinch 16, the latter passing under the belly position on the back of the animal. of the animal as shown. The cinch rope 21 is Figure 2 is an elevational view showing the then trained upwardly and over the pack 20 in manner in which an end portion of the securing a manner well known in the art and as clearly rope is passed through the loop or eye of the shown in the drawings. In this connection it .25 1; will be noted that when the hook 10 is used the 5 Figure 3 is a similar view showing the manner free end portion 21a of the cinch rope is trained. in which the ends of the rope are secured at the through the eye 14 in a manner to provide a loop completion of the operation. 21?). After the loop 21?) is formed as shown in Figure a is an edge elevational view further Figure 2 the end of the loop is engaged over the 3 illustrating the application of the hook. projection or lug 13 as clearly shown in Figure- Figure 5 is a plan View of the hook. 4 after which the end 21a of the cinch rope is Figure 6 is a side edge elevational view thereof. used to throw any one of the following types of Figure '7 is a fragmentary sectional View taken hitches around the pack, as for example, a square, through the hook in the region of the eye therebox or diamond hitch; after which the said end 755 f and is secured as at 24 through the medium of a suit -9 Figure 8 is a plan view of a lash cinch with the able notch. hook applied thereto. To those skilled in the art it will be apparent Referring to the drawings by reference nuthat with a hook, such as the hook 10 embodying nierals it will be seen that the hook designated the features of this invention the major portion 40 generally by the reference numeral 10 is in the of the rope will be held taut while the hitch is -95 '50 an oblong slot or eye 14. The lower section or claim as new is:

present instance cut from a single blank, prefbeing thrown around the pack, drawn tight, and erably from a blank of wood and comprises a the knot 24 is being substantially formed. It will substantially rectangular body 11 which has one thus be seen that the use of a hook will eliminate face thereof at substantially the lower half of need of a second person standing at one side of the body beveled as at 12. At its upper end the the pack animal and continually pulling on the .3100 body 11 has formed integral therewith .an u major portion of the cinch rope until the person wardly projecting knob or lug portion 13. The on the opposite side of the pack animal has comupper section or part of the body above the pleted the knot 24.

transverse center thereof is also provided with Having thus described my invention, what I .105 part of the body 11 is provided with a plurality, 1. A lash cinch hook comprising a block like preferably three apertures 15 which are arranged body provided intermediate its ends with a transsubstantially as shown, that is in the form of a verse slot for the passage therethrough of a cinch triangle. rope, said body being provided at one end edge In using th hook 10 the y 11 has a lower with an integral projection for the looping of a llQ cinch rope thereabout subsequent to the passage of the rope through the slot, and said body having the end portion thereof opposite to the projection provided with a series of holes for threading the body to the lash cinch.

2. In combination, a lash cinch provided with a series of apertures in one end thereof, a hook for the cinch comprising a block like body having an end portion thereof provided with a series of openings for registry with the openings in said end of the lash cinch, a cord threaded through the registering openings in the cinch and body for securing the body to the cinch, and said body being provided intermediate its ends with a transverse slot for the passage of a rope therethrough, said body being also provided with a projection extending from an edge thereof and adapted to have a cinch rope looped thereabout subsequent to the passage of the cinch rope through the slot.

through the slot.

4. In a device of the character described a lash cinch provided at one end with a hook comprising a solid body having a cinch rope accommodating slot intermediate its ends and an integral projection at the end of the body remote from the cinch for the looping of a cinch rope thereabout subsequent to the passage of the rope CHARLES B. WATTS.

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